WWE Ratings News: Viewers Over 50 Dominate TV Ratings

I have always been curious to know more about WWE’s ratings — Each week when the overnight rating of RAW and SmackDownLIVE is revealed, the highest viewing demographic is the 50+ crowd, while the lowest viewing demographic is the 12-18 range. I know many millenial viewers watch shows on delay or at their own pleasure so I decided to reach out to top wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer on this matter.

@davemeltzerWON Would WWE's 18-34 demo ratings be higher if VOD and Live + 7 were taken into account?

I don’t believe this at all as far as the demos go. But either way—Mondays got 10 million wrestling watchers during the Monday Night War, now it is struggling for 3 million.

So basically what this article says is kids and old farts watch this – lol

I don’t care who does – as long as it is lower and going down – I always hope for WWE to do poorly – why should I care about the people THEY employ, when they put so many people out of work in the biz in the 80s and never batted an eye?

I’d love to see the idiots in WWE lose their jobs.

Either way – the people who watch WWE have ZERO buying power and not sought after by advertisers.

Very pleased by this.

These are the things I point out hat get me banned and trolled.

Just blocked my first person EVER on Disqus by the way.

:-)

PIPE BOMB!

Hobbs

Who did you block?

FinnMcInnes

He probably blocked The X2C, even though he doesn’t post here.

Dabrasko

Lol what a feeb.

Calvin

Not a chance he would block The X2C. He is wayyy too obsessed with him to do that!

Dabrasko

lol he said he blocked me but I can still see everything he posts and he’s still responding.

Calvin

What I find crazy is that the #2 wrestling program on tv back then consistently drew 5-6 million viewers.

Nowadays the #2 promotion struggles for 300k.

Nearly 5-6 million people have stopped supporting the #2 promotion.

That is some big food for thought!

Creature_of_the_Night

Kinda like how the #1 promotion, since they defeated the #2 show on Mondays that used to be the competition,

and now is pretty much the only game in town-

only gets 30% of the audience that wrestling on Mondays used to get combined.

And gets barely half of what they used to.

Food for thought.

Dabrasko

Lol your right. WWE is clearly the #1 there isn’t a number 2!! There isn’t any competition!!!

Creature_of_the_Night

More food for thought:

The #2 promotion back then was owned and funded by TED TURNER and on TNT

The #2 promotion today is on POP!

BOW!
BAM!
ZOOM!
ZAP!
ZING!

Calvin

It’s still on cable television in tens of millions of homes. People just choose to not tune in like they use to. From 5-6 million to 300k is just pathetic.

Creature_of_the_Night

At least you admit IMPACT is the #2 promotion in the world!!!

KABOOM!

Dabrasko

It was at one point now its 3rd

Calvin

Wel yeah, you just informed me on that about how huge 300k was for a wrestling show.

Well it’s nowhere near the 5-6 million that the #2 show use to draw.

That’s a testament to just how bad TNA really is. Losing over 5 million viewers like that.

Pathetic

Sad if you really think about it.

Creature_of_the_Night

Plus NITRO wasn’t taped sometimes months in advance.

It’s amazing how you conveniently leave all this stuff out.

This is what got me banned at WrestlingInc – they couldn’t get away with their crap when I was there. They finally banned me.

LMFAO

Calvin

Not my fault that TNA is so cheap they have to tape shows.

Facts are facts:

#2 show use to draw 5-6 million…now it only draws 300k.

Proof, point, period.

Dabrasko

You didn’t block me you fucking idiot!!!

FinnMcInnes

But that would mean Creature of the Night was wrong about kids being the only ones watching WWE. In fact, 50+ year olds would be the very definition of Old School wrestling fans. Well, he’s wrong about most of his historical facts, he wrong about stating his opinions as facts and he’s wrong about this. Hat trick!

Dabrasko

He’s an idiot lol

Creature_of_the_Night

That’s assuming this is correct – all this ratings info is so subjective and made up.

There were a lot more 50 year olds watching WWF in the 80s and 90s. DOCUMENTED FACT!

Look at the drop in RAW ratings and the drop for SD this week.

Nuff said.

Dabrasko

NBA playoffs you dork! It always takes a dip at this time. So if these are incorrectly then clearly Impavts already shit numbers must be lower than already reported.

Not a good sign at all. Just terrible for Impact.

FinnMcInnes

Show me your proof. Show me that viewership for Tuesday Night Titans and/or Prime Time Wrestling (the 80’s) was higher then RAW is today. I have literally no idea if you are right, but I’m pretty sure you can’t prove it. So proof or shut the fuck up.

One_Man_Army

Well, I don’t know about the 80s. But I know for a fact ratings were much higher in the 90s. During the original Monday night wars between 1996 and 2000, Nitro started bringing in ratings over 6.0. Those were insane numbers for a wrestling program on cable television. Raw started to heat up around 1998 and 1999 bringing in its own 6’s in cable ratings. Throughout 1998 and 1999, Raw and Nitro had a combined audience that would be equivalent to well over 10 in cable ratings. These days, Raw is lucky to get a measly 3.2 lol. The audience has dropped off significantly since wrestling’s glory days. The main reason is lack of actual interest due to a lack of real competition that would force the WWE to push the barriers it pushed once upon a time.

The Governor

If it’s so subjective and made up why in the blue hell do you keep bringing it up?

You throw every excuse you can muster up when TNGAY has piss poor ratings, but when the best best brand in the biz, WWE, dips (due to legit competition), you claim they’re going out of business.

My god, your contradictions contradict themselves.

Creature_of_the_Night

“”All ratings would be about 10-12% higher, but they’d be 10% higher last year as well, so declines are still there.””